A look at the best news photos from around the world.
January 31, 2020
![A demonstrator climbing a ladder fixes a Palestinian flag into the barbed wire topping Israeli's controversial separation barrier in the occupied West Bank village of Bilin near Ramallah.](https://gdb.voanews.com/641a949f-30d0-410d-8a1a-bbb616c54504_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A demonstrator climbing a ladder fixes a Palestinian flag into the barbed wire topping Israeli's controversial separation barrier in the occupied West Bank village of Bilin near Ramallah.
![The Foreign and Commonwealth Office buildings are illuminated on Brexit day in London, Britain.](https://gdb.voanews.com/e70cd910-8e74-4422-a249-81abdbf51fbb_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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The Foreign and Commonwealth Office buildings are illuminated on Brexit day in London, Britain.
![A visitor walks behind a giant 3D object of an common housefly by Julia Stoess during a press preview at the Leipzig asisi Panometer in Leipzig, Germany.](https://gdb.voanews.com/8322f1e3-8f3a-4055-8075-53564d7a90e9_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A visitor walks behind a giant 3D object of an common housefly by Julia Stoess during a press preview at the Leipzig asisi Panometer in Leipzig, Germany.
![A woman wears a plastic water bottle with a cutout to cover her face, as she walks on a footbridge in Hong Kong, as a preventative measure following a virus outbreak which began in the Chinese city of Wuhan.](https://gdb.voanews.com/32cf0c4f-79b4-476f-8bae-ad26dd6088da_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A woman wears a plastic water bottle with a cutout to cover her face, as she walks on a footbridge in Hong Kong, as a preventative measure following a virus outbreak which began in the Chinese city of Wuhan.